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19-letter words containing i, n, t, e

  • american directoire — a style of American furniture making and related crafts from c1805 to c1815, corresponding to the French Directoire and English Regency styles.
  • american revolution — a sequence of actions by American colonists from 1763 to 1775 protesting British domination and culminating in the Revolutionary War
  • american smoke tree — a small tree, Cotinus obovatus, of the cashew family, of the central southern U.S., having yellowish flowers and clusters of fleshy fruit with silky plumes.
  • ammonium binoxalate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly for removing ink stains from fabrics.
  • anaerobic digestion — the conversion of biodegradable waste matter into compost in the absence of oxygen
  • analytical geometry — the branch of geometry that uses algebraic notation and analysis to locate a geometric point in terms of a coordinate system; coordinate geometry
  • ancillary equipment — Ancillary equipment is machines and other technical things which are used with the main items of equipment to create a complete system.
  • angioneurotic edema — swelling that occurs just beneath the surface of the skin or mucous membranes.
  • angle of reflection — the angle that a beam of reflected radiation makes with the normal to a surface at the point of reflection
  • angle of refraction — the angle that a refracted beam of radiation makes with the normal to the surface between two media at the point of refraction
  • anno urbis conditae — in a (specified) year from the founding of the city: the ancient Romans reckoned dates from Rome's founding, c. 753 b.c.
  • annual limit values — Annual limit values are the maximum amounts of emissions which are allowed each year.
  • antarctic peninsula — the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south
  • anterograde amnesia — amnesia caused by brain damage in which the memory loss relates to events occurring after the damage
  • anthropic principle — the cosmological theory that the presence of life in the universe limits the ways in which the very early universe could have evolved
  • anthropocentrically — regarding the human being as the central fact of the universe.
  • anti-comintern pact — a pact formed in 1936, based on agreements between Germany and Japan to oppose communism and the Third International: Italy and Spain subsequently became signatories.
  • anti-ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
  • anti-fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • anti-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • anti-vivisectionist — a person who opposes vivisection.
  • anticholinesterases — Plural form of anticholinesterase.
  • anticipatory breach — a declaration by one party to a contract that it does not intend to fulfil its obligations to the second party, who can then accept this declaration and choose not to be bound by the contract
  • anticompetitiveness — The quality of being anticompetitive.
  • antimissile missile — a ballistic missile for seeking and destroying missiles in flight.
  • antimony trisulfide — a black or orange-red crystalline compound, Sb2S3, used as a pigment, in pyrotechnics and matches, for fireproofing fabrics and paper, etc.
  • antoine louis barye — Antoine Louis [ahn-twan lwee] /ɑ̃ˈtwan lwi/ (Show IPA), 1795–1875, French sculptor and painter.
  • appetite depressant — a product which reduces one's appetite
  • application testing — system testing
  • applied linguistics — linguistic theory as applied to such fields as lexicography, psychology, the teaching of reading, the creation of orthographies, and especially language teaching.
  • appointment viewing — the practice of setting time aside to watch particular television programmes
  • appointments bureau — an office responsible for filling appointments
  • appraisal interview — an interview by the manager of an employee who is being appraised
  • arbitration service — a service which provides an impartial referee to settle disputes
  • aristotle's lantern — a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates forming an eversible organ in most echinoids, functioning in mastication.
  • arkwright furniture — late medieval English furniture of simple construction.
  • armed response unit — (in Britain) a unit of police officers who are trained to use firearms in situations where unarmed police officers would be in danger
  • aromatase inhibitor — any of a class of drugs that inhibit the action of aromatase: used in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer
  • arsenic trichloride — a colorless or yellow, oily, poisonous liquid, AsCl 3 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of organic arsenicals.
  • artemis microkernel — (operating system)   A microkernel currently under development by Dave Hudson <[email protected]>, scheduled for release under GPL in May 1995. It is targeted at embedded applications on Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium based systems.
  • artificial language — an invented language, esp one intended as an international medium of communication or for use with computers
  • as things/people go — You use expressions like as things go or as children go when you are describing one person or thing and comparing them with others of the same kind.
  • ask for a signature — If you ask for a signature, you ask someone to write their name, in their own characteristic way, on a document.
  • assistant professor — An assistant professor is a college teacher who ranks above an instructor but below an associate professor.
  • assistant secretary — a person who assists a secretary in their work
  • at one's discretion — as one wishes
  • at one's fingertips — readily available and within one's mental grasp
  • at sb's convenience — If something is arranged to happen at your convenience, it happens at a time which is most suitable for you.
  • at sixes and sevens — If you say that someone or something is at sixes and sevens, you mean that they are confused or disorganized.
  • at your convenience — at a time suitable to you
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